Guide to download a page real quick

Waiting for a site to download is the worse experience a user faces.
Home page of a web site needs to be very light in terms of graphics.In the event of a page not getting downloaded real quick, visitors tend leave your website.Here are some simple methods of why speed of download is important.
- The first part is visitors wants to get there information quickly. No one has the time to wait and watch web site getting downloaded.- Second part is we should deliver the content very quickly so that we can keep them hooked to our web site. So the important content needs to be organized at the top of the page.
- A user should not take more then 3 clicks to reach his desired content on the web site.

To achieve a better optimized web site by loading it real quick one needs to follow these simple steps.

- Avoid using graphics, try and use maximum of text and use your typography skills to make it look attractive enough to the visitors.
- Do not use flash on the main page, specially those never ending flash intro’s which takes its own sweet time to load followed by HTML content. Absence of flash plug-in may result in losing a lot of potential visitors.
- Use multiple tables instead of nesting everything in one table.
- Differentiate images into GIF and JPEG depending upon there colors.
- Use maximum of CSS, which gives a cleaner HTML code.